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Development ◽  
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vishnu Mishra ◽  
Archita Singh ◽  
Nidhi Gandhi ◽  
Shabari Sarkar Das ◽  
Sandeep Yadav ◽  
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Submergence-induced hypoxic condition negatively affects the plant growth and development, and causes early onset of senescence. Hypoxia alters the expression of a number of microRNAs (miRNAs). However, the molecular function of submergence stress-induced miRNAs in physiological or developmental changes and recovery remains poorly understood. Here we show that miR775 is an Arabidopsis thaliana-specific young and unique miRNA that possibly evolved non-canonically. miR775 post-transcriptionally regulates Galactosyltransferase (GALT9) and their expression is inversely affected at 24 hours of complete submergence stress. The overexpression of miR775 (miR775-Oe) confers enhanced recovery from submergence stress and reduced accumulation of RBOHD and ROS, in contrast to wild type and MIM775 Arabidopsis shoot. A similar recovery phenotype of galt9 mutant indicates the role of miR775-GALT9 module in post-submergence recovery. We predicted Golgi-localized GALT9 to be potentially involved in protein glycosylation. The altered expression of senescence-associated genes (SAG12, SAG29, and ORE1), ethylene signalling (EIN2 and EIN3) and ABA biosynthesis (NCED3) pathway genes in miR775-Oe, galt9 and MIM775 plants. Thus, our results indicate the role of miR775-GALT9 module in post-submergence recovery through a crosstalk with ethylene and ABA pathway.


Antioxidants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Jana Deckers ◽  
Sophie Hendrix ◽  
Els Prinsen ◽  
Jaco Vangronsveld ◽  
Ann Cuypers

Pollution by cadmium (Cd) is a worldwide problem, posing risks to human health and impacting crop yield and quality. Cadmium-induced phytotoxicity arises from an imbalance between antioxidants and pro-oxidants in favour of the latter. The Cd-induced depletion of the major antioxidant glutathione (GSH) strongly contributes to this imbalance. Rather than being merely an adverse effect of Cd exposure, the rapid depletion of root GSH levels was proposed to serve as an alert response. This alarm phase is crucial for an optimal stress response, which defines acclimation later on. To obtain a better understanding on the importance of GSH in the course of these responses and how these are defined by the rapid GSH depletion, analyses were performed in the GSH-deficient cadmium-sensitive 2-1 (cad2-1) mutant. Cadmium-induced root and leaf responses related to oxidative challenge, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), GSH, ethylene, and aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) were compared between wild-type (WT) and mutant Arabidopsis thaliana plants. Although the cad2-1 mutant has significantly lower GSH levels, root GSH depletion still occurred, suggesting that the chelating capacity of GSH is prioritised over its antioxidative function. We demonstrated that responses related to GSH metabolism and ACC production were accelerated in mutant roots and that stress persisted due to suboptimal acclimation. In general, the redox imbalance in cad2-1 mutant plants and the lack of proper transient ethylene signalling contributed to this suboptimal acclimation, resulting in a more pronounced Cd effect.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 4375
Author(s):  
Antonio Cellini ◽  
Irene Donati ◽  
Brian Farneti ◽  
Iuliia Khomenko ◽  
Giampaolo Buriani ◽  
...  

Ethylene interacts with other plant hormones to modulate many aspects of plant metabolism, including defence and stomata regulation. Therefore, its manipulation may allow plant pathogens to overcome the host’s immune responses. This work investigates the role of ethylene as a virulence factor for Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae (Psa), the aetiological agent of the bacterial canker of kiwifruit. The pandemic, highly virulent biovar of this pathogen produces ethylene, whereas the biovars isolated in Japan and Korea do not. Ethylene production is modulated in planta by light/dark cycle. Exogenous ethylene application stimulates bacterial virulence, and restricts or increases host colonisation if performed before or after inoculation, respectively. The deletion of a gene, unrelated to known bacterial biosynthetic pathways and putatively encoding for an oxidoreductase, abolishes ethylene production and reduces the pathogen growth rate in planta. Ethylene production by Psa may be a recently and independently evolved virulence trait in the arms race against the host. Plant- and pathogen-derived ethylene may concur in the activation/suppression of immune responses, in the chemotaxis toward a suitable entry point, or in the endophytic colonisation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyo-Jun Lee ◽  
Ji-Sun Park ◽  
Seung Yong Shin ◽  
Sang-Gyu Kim ◽  
Gisuk Lee ◽  
...  

Abstract Flooding is a common and critical disaster in agriculture, because it causes defects in plant growth and even crop loss. An increase in herbivore populations is often observed after floods, which leads to additional damage to the plants. Although molecular mechanisms underlying the plant responses to flooding have been identified, how plant defence systems are affected by flooding remains poorly understood. Herein, we show that submergence deactivates wound-induced defence against herbivore attack in Arabidopsis thaliana. Submergence rapidly suppressed the wound-induced expression of jasmonic acid (JA) biosynthesis genes, resulting in reduced JA accumulation. While plants exposed to hypoxia in argon gas exhibited similar reduced wound responses, the inhibitory effects were initiated after short-term submergence without signs for lack of oxygen. Instead, expression of ethylene-responsive genes was increased after short-term submergence. Blocking ethylene signalling by ein2-1 mutation partially restored suppressed expression of several wound-responsive genes by submergence. In addition, submergence rapidly removed active markers of histone modifications at a gene locus involved in JA biosynthesis. Our findings suggest that submergence inactivates defence systems of plants, which would explain the proliferation of herbivores after flooding.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yazhou Li ◽  
Jianghan Wang ◽  
Luxin Ke ◽  
Xiuyun Zhao ◽  
Gaofu Qi

Abstract Background: Molasses is a wildly used feedstock for fermentation, but it poses a severe wastewater-disposal problem worldwide. Recently, the wastewater produced by yeast during molasses fermentation is being processed into fulvic acid (FA) powder as a fertilizer for crops, but it consequently induces a problem of soil acidification after being directly applied in soil. In this study, the low-cost FA powder was bioconverted into a value-added product, γ-PGA, by a glutamate independent producer, Bacillus velezensis GJ11. Results: With FA powder, the substrates of sodium glutamate and citrate sodium used in medium were decreased around one third. Moreover, FA powder could completely substitute Mg2+, Mn2+, Ca2+ and Fe3+ in the fermentation medium. In the optimized FA powder fermentation medium, the γ-PGA was produced with its maximum concentration at 42.55 g/L and a productivity of 1.15 g/(L·h), while only 2.87 g/L was produced in the medium without FA powder. Hydrolyzed γ-PGA could trigger induced systemic resistance (ISR), e.g. H2O2 accumulation and callose deposition, against the pathogen infection in plants. Further investigations found that the ISR triggered by γ-PGA hydrolyzates was dependent on the ethylene signalling and NPR1. Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first report of using the industry waste, FA powder, as a sustainable substrate for the microbial synthesis of γ-PGA. This bioprocess can not only develop a new way of FA powder as a cheap feedstock for producing γ-PGA, but also help to reduce pollution from the wastewater of yeast molasses fermentation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (9) ◽  
pp. 2287-2300
Author(s):  
Zhen Yang ◽  
Chaoqi Wang ◽  
Kai Qiu ◽  
Huiru Chen ◽  
Zhongpeng Li ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Gao ◽  
Yaoxin Zhang ◽  
Zhengguo Li ◽  
Mingchun Liu

Abstract The ethylene response factors (ERFs) belong to the APETALA2/ethylene response factor (AP2/ERF) superfamily and act downstream of the ethylene signalling pathway to regulate the expression of ethylene responsive genes. In different species, ERFs have been reported to be involved in plant development, flower abscission, fruit ripening, and defense responses. In this review, based on the new progress made by recent studies, we summarize the specific role and mode of action of ERFs in regulating different aspects of ripening in both climacteric and non-climacteric fruits, and provide new insights into the role of ethylene in non-climacteric fruit ripening.


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